fowler

See also: Fowler

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *plew-

Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der.

Proto-Germanic *fluglazder.

Proto-Germanic *fuglaz

Proto-West Germanic *fugl

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī

Old English fuglere

Middle English foulere

English fowler

From Middle English foulere, fouler, from Old English fuglere (“fowler”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī, equivalent to fowl +‎ -er. Doublet of veuglaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊlə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophones: fouler, Fowler

Noun

fowler (plural fowlers)

1. A hunter of wildfowl.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 124:7:

     Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped

   • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

     Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]

Derived terms

• batfowler
• waterfowler

Descendants

• → Irish: foghlaeir

Translations

a hunter of wildfowl

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捕鸟者 (bǔ niǎo zhě)

• Czech: lovec ptactva
• Estonian: linnukütt
• Finnish: linnustaja (fi)
• French: oiseleur (fr) m
• German: Vogelfänger (de) m, Vogelfängerin f, Vogeljäger m, Vogeljägerin f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἰξευτής m (ixeutḗs)

• Hungarian: madarász (hu)
• Irish: foghlaeir m
• Japanese: 鳥狩り (togari)
• Latin: auceps m
• Middle English: foulere
• Polish: ptasznik (pl) m
• Romanian: păsărar (ro) m
• Scots:

  Middle Scots: foular

• Scottish Gaelic: eunadair m
• Swedish: fågelfängare (sv) c
• Turkish: kuşçu (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قوشجی (kuşcu)

• Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎖𐎌 (yqš)
• Volapük: (♂♀) bödifanan (vo), (♂) bödihifanan, (♀) bödijifanan
• Welsh: adarwr m

Anagrams

• Flower, Wolfer, flower, flowre, reflow, wolfer

Middle English

Noun

fowler

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of foulere